Description

The non-renderable metadata section of a BDML document.

The metadata section contains metadata elements which are non-renderable or specify specially generated or included renderable items.

Attributes

No attributes are defined for the <metadata> element.

Immediate descendants

Element name	Description
<copyright>	Specifies a copyright declaration for the immediate document.
<cover>	Specifies a cover image for the document. This is HTML specific and can be used to display the cover page at the start of the HTML document if desired.
<css>	Specifies inline css to use for styling the document.
<footer>	Specifies a document to be included as the footer.
<header>	Specifies a document to be included as the header.
<index-entries>	A set of index text matches to be used to automatically create the document's index.
<index-page>	The position of the index in the document's back matter.
<link>	HTML specific link elements to place in the <head> section of the generated HTML document.
<meta>	HTML specific meta elements to place in the <head> section of the generated HTML document.
<numbering>	An instruction to enable the full or partial automatic numbering of the document's part, chapter, and heading elements.
<relative-root>	Specifies the relative folder which acts as the root for relative paths specified in the document.
<script>	Specify a script to include in the target's header (used for HTML target only).
<stylesheet>	Specify a CSS stylesheet to apply (cascade) on top of the target's default CSS.
<toc>	Specify whether an automatic table of contents should be generated from the <part>, <chapter>, and <h*> elements.
<trademark>	Specifies a trademark declaration for the immediate document.

Immediate ancestors

Element name	Relation
<document>	The root document element containing the metadata section.

Example

<document xmlns="http://boradoc.org/1.0">
  <metadata>
    <header url="resources/header.bdml" />
    <footer url="resources/footer.bdml" />
    <stylesheet url="resources/main.css" />
    <stylesheet url="resources/pdf.css" target="pdf" />
    <stylesheet url="resources/html.css" target="html" />
    <numbering start="1" finish="5" target="pdf" />
    <copyright>Copyright 2006 ABC Corp</copyright>
  </metadata>
  <-- Main document content follows.. -->
</document>